Recently the East Asia Institute (EAI) welcomed to Cambridge Dr Chang-Gyu Hwang, President of the Memory Division of Samsung Electronics. Dr Hwang met staff from the EAI, visited the West Cambridge site to find out about a variety of high-tech research projects and delivered a lecture on the future of the semiconductor industry.
Recently the East Asia Institute (EAI) welcomed to Cambridge Dr Chang-Gyu Hwang, President of the Memory Division of Samsung Electronics. Dr Hwang met staff from the EAI, visited the West Cambridge site to find out about a variety of high-tech research projects and delivered a lecture on the future of the semiconductor industry.
Dr. Hwang was accompanied by a number of senior Samsung officials and His Excellency Ambassador Jong-Yil Ra, the South Korean Ambassador to the UK, and Mr Seung-Il Cheong, the First Secretary (Commercial) of the Korean Embassy.
Dr Hwang's visit began with a meeting with the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Alec Broers. Like the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Hwang is a distinguished electrical engineer with both academic and industry experience. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University from 1985 to 1989. He holds 14 patents and has won many awards and honours.
The meeting was an opportunity to share professional experiences and insights and the Vice-Chancellor told Dr Hwang that Cambridge welcomed stronger links with Samsung.
This was followed by a meeting with EAI staff at which Dr Hwang was introduced to the work of the EAI and the Centre for Korean Studies and briefed on the EAI's current development plans.
Dr Hwang also met Professor Mark Welland, Professor of Nanotechnology, and Professor Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics. They discussed future directions and new developments in nanotechnology, electrical engineering and physics and the Korean party saw their work at first hand in a visit to the University's West Cambridge site, where they were learnt about the history and current research work of the Cavendish Laboratory. The group was also saw the new IRC Nanotechnology Laboratory and the Computer Laboratory.
The culmination of Dr. Hwang's visit was his keynote lecture, attended by an audience of over 400, on The Theory of 'Fusion Memory' and Semiconductor Growth in the IT Era at the Cavendish Laboratory. Offering new challenges and opportunities for both businesses and academics involved in semiconductors, Dr Hwang spoke on the ten-year market outlook for memory chips, forecasting that it would continue to expand beyond PC applications to new uses in networking and telecommunications technologies.
"The visit was highly successful and we hope to welcome Dr. Hwang back to Cambridge in the not too distant future," said Dr John Swenson-Wright, Acting Director of the Centre for Korean Studies.
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